A superior court lacks jurisdiction to hear a suit challenging the Public Utilities Commission’s response to a public records request. A superior court lacks jurisdiction to review any order or decision of the PUC. Pub. Util. Code 1759. Hence, a superior court cannot hear a suit challenging the PUC’s response to a request for documents…

The district court had subject matter jurisdiction if complete diversity actually existed when the complaint was filed, even if the complaint failed to allege it properly, so the district court properly denied defendant’s motion to vacate a summary judgment for lack of subject matter jurisdiction after the plaintiff submitted evidence of complete diversity in opposition. …

When, on a summary judgment motion in a case removed from state court, a federal court determines it lacks subject matter jurisdiction because the plaintiff lacks Article III standing, the federal court should remand the case to state court, not dismiss it. Plaintiff filed this putative class action against defendant in state court. Defendant removed…